{"id":3291,"date":"2009-01-06T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2009-01-06T16:35:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T21:35:41","slug":"tuesday-various-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3291","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alfred Shaheen, inventor of the Hawaiian shirt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/organgrinder\/2009\/jan\/06\/hawaiian-shirt-alfred-shaheen\">has passed away<\/a>. I know at least <a href=\"http:\/\/generik.blogspot.com\/\">one person<\/a> who will be inconsolable for days. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c\" title=\"Cyncial-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>So it&#8217;s official: <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/index.php\">Sci Fi Wire<\/a> has become another <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/\">io9<\/a>. Although, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.art-machine.org\/two-million-can-play-at-that-game\/\">as Glen points out<\/a>, there are probably better things to be.<\/li>\n<li>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neave.com\/planetarium\/\">online planetarium<\/a>. It&#8217;s a neat, if at first somewhat dizzying, application. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t often (that is, ever) post Metallica videos here. But that&#8217;s only because I&#8217;ve never seen any as seriously entertaining and weird <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/77250\/So-thats-where-they-come-from\">as this one<\/a>. From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunguska_event\">Tunguska Event<\/a> to zombie disaster, it&#8217;s worth watching even if the music isn&#8217;t your cup of tea. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/04\/opinion\/04lewiseinhorn.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=2\">The End of the Financial World as We Know It<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Say what you will about our government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approach to the financial crisis, you cannot accuse it of wasting its energy being consistent or trying to win over the masses. In the past year there have been at least seven different bailouts, and six different strategies. And none of them seem to have pleased anyone except a handful of financiers.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Substantial and sweeping reform is going to be needed to get us out of this mess.<\/font> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred Shaheen, inventor of the Hawaiian shirt, has passed away. I know at least one person who will be inconsolable for days. [via] So it&#8217;s official: Sci Fi Wire has become another io9. Although, as Glen points out, there are probably better things to be. An online planetarium. It&#8217;s a neat, if at first somewhat &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3291\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}